The quills from left wings were preferable for right-handed people as they would curve away from the face and over the back of the hand. Quills from right wings were a bit of a nuisance if you were right handed and therefore tended to be bought cheaply by people without too much money to spend.

Yes, they all contain their languages word for apples English obvious the other one is German apfelsine which I think translates roughly as sour apple, I think the Italian translates roughly as golden apple

If you can fill the unforgiving minute,With sixty seconds worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a man my son.

It's something that occurred to me when I was at a BBQ with a Dutch woman and she said to her son blah blah blah aardapel purre (no idea if my spelling is accurate can JVQ confirm?) and knowing the aardvark gets its name from the Boer for earth pig and that the French call potatoes earth apples I was able to deduce that aardapel meant potato, that and the fact that he then passed her the mash potato.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute,With sixty seconds worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a man my son.